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“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.”

Men Humans May Art Action Grace Honor Future Quiet Gains Tests Sight Regard Makers Attributes Majesty Magnificence Human Actions

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.”

Ifs Humans I Can Form Fronts Comfort Models Sight Portraits Human Form

Author:Auguste Rodin

“When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.”

“Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.”

Giving Humans Humor Changed Perspective Bears Laughter Sight Permit Gracious Pompous Good Humor Humor And Laughter

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”

Humans Enough Asks Easy Friendship Love Is Impossible Materials Sight Endure Absurd Ask Me Human Love Without Friends

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you're in it.”

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Author:Steve Sheinkin

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".”

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Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.”

Humans Loses Limits Sight Constant Bounds Human Life Metamorphosis

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.”

Should Humans Light Night Social Feet Solitude Sight Crowds Woods Thee

Author:Tibullus